Quilter Amps

Ummm...for which product?

They seem to have a few.

Or is this just a post to get people to the site?

If it is then I guess it just worked.

🙂


not at all -no 'push' .

i'm trying to find the most widely used class D components.

doesn't matter if the spec is not the best.
I've been burned with discontinued parts etc.


if I find some high-volume users each using the same part, that's probably a safe one to design in.

no gurantees but it improves the odds.

then maybe the counterfits kick in too.


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The best I could come up with...

Patent US20130136278 - Guitar amplifier - Google Patents

According to another embodiment, when power amplifier circuit 115 is incorporated in a common chassis with sampled subsystems such as digital effects processors, it is often desired to synchronize the switching frequency of the power amplifier with a multiple or sub-multiple of the digital processor clock, to prevent unwanted beat frequencies from developing. For this reason, power amplifier circuit 115 may be configured to operate based on a fixed frequency, rather than a self-oscillating frequency. It should be appreciated that the general principles described herein may be applied to self-oscillating schemes, allowing for possible issues of increased noise or beat tones. In one exemplary embodiment, power amplifier circuit 115 may operate based on a fixed frequency within the range of 150 kHz to 500 kHz. The range of power amplifier circuit 115 may provide a tradeoff of high frequency quality at the lower range against higher switching loss at the higher range. According to one exemplary embodiment, a 250 kHz frequency range can be quite satisfactory in practice.
 
is that quilter's or your recomend?

Mine, purely biased. 🙂

well i ordered a handfull of tpa3118 finished boards.

the high cost item (for me) is transformer for XLR balanced output.

i have a 12au7 in pre . it cost as much as the finished board.

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This is what I use...TPA3116/8 need a low Z source for low noise. IMHO
 

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Been testing TPA3118 PBTL and IRS2092 and they are both in the running as 10+ year high volume parts.

Maybe one can back-up the other.

The TPA3118 pbtl is impressive, clips nice too. I think using some film caps will clean up even more this $6 eval board. Doing my own of course.

One set of plots attached is 10W and other 1W

I use an isolation transformer line level balanced input with the 1k 1k .0047 .0047 Mica filter.

I'm feeling really happy on these d-class parts.

Back to the valve hybrid pre.


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I have a Quilter 101. But I use it with an Ethos in front. I could probably do without alot of the tone shaping part of the circuit. Would love to build a basic stereo version that responds in a similar fashion to the quilter. Has anyone finished their hybrid builds on this thread?